Category: Music
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Single Review: The Hope State – Just Survive
Earlier this summer, The Hope State released their new track “Just Survive” to great acclaim from the Halfway 2 Nowhere team. The Toronto based band are the latest in a string of Canadian bands to make it onto our playlists and their infectious, honest lyrics in “Just Survive” really caught my attention…
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Sauce // Magick Trick
Fresh Manchester band Sauce and their new cheeky little track Magick Trick serves up a devilishly clever melding. I’ll resist the temptation to suggest it’s as good as the day I discovered the mix of hot chilli and barbeque. Magick Trick gives me a feel for the heyday of 60’s…
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Album Review: Massive Wagons, Full Nelson
The North-West is often mistaken for being synonymous with Manchester and that, unfortunately is not the case. Many cities and towns have seen a plethora of mediocre artists come and go in the area and it often feels like Blackburn, Chester and the likes will never create a real artist…
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Single Review: Able’s Army, Private Eye
The first time I saw Able’s Army back in 2016, I described them as “Britpop Beatles”. Since then they have gone to prove me wrong by being a great indie-rock band with the releases of Crawl and Astronaut. This month though, the Huddersfield based band released their new single Private Eye which is 100%…
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Lazy Sunday Afternoon: Sunday 19th August @ Wharf Chambers
Following the beautiful vibes, glorious sun and killer line up of last summer’s LAZY SUNDAY AFTERNOON, the curators – Bradford’s cinematic alt-rock quartet GLASS MOUNTAIN – have upped the ante with another eclectic and exciting line up, including THE GOLDEN AGE OF TV, THE HOWL & THE HUM, DREAM ENGLISH…
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Live: Y Not Festival 2018
Y Not Festival holds a special place on the live music circuit. Few festivals combine the talent of tomorrow with the legends of yesterday quite like them which is why, year on year the festival grows both in capacity, and in stature. Following on from the disaster that was 2017,…
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The Maitlands // Kisses For The Masses
A new song that has snuck under the covers into my consciousness comes from Manchester based The Maitlands. The June released track Kisses For The Masses has confidence in spade; it’s not a long track but nevertheless the riffs and the tune appear to meander gently along before the band…
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Purple Thread // Life’s A Drag
There’s no shortage of pomp and flash when Leeds band Purple Thread are around. This July saw the release of their latest track Life’s A Drag. Like its immediate predecessor, Glitter, the song has swagger, funk, punk and bounce in equal measure; it’s impossible to stay down when Purple Thread…
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Single Review: Johnny Kills – Who’s Counting
Surf-glam..what does that mean I found myself asking when I read that this was the genre of music Johnny Kills best describe themselves as. Having admittedly never heard of the band until they dropped into our inbox, I was intrigued to find out that it is a genre of music I am…
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Review: Tramlines Festival 2018
Last weekend, Sheffield celebrated it’s most famous music festival’s tenth birthday as more people than ever before descended on Hillsborough Park for Tramlines 2018. Now at it’s new permanent home away from the city, the main festival site has seen itself distanced from the city centre “Fringe Festival” in a…
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Live Preview: 5 Acts To Watch at Tramlines 2018
There are only a few days left until Hillsborough Park opens it’s gates for the first time to Tramlines festival, welcoming the biggest lineup in it’s 10 year history. It’s never easy spotting the best new talent amongst a lineup as crowded as this year’s so we’ve done the ground…
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EP Review, Callow Youth, Vibe Demo’s
Band names are important; sometimes a mere name can make me sit up and want to take notice. A name has got to have something individual about it; call yourself “Brexit” and you are going to struggle to get noticed in a web search. The name of Manchester’s (Tameside and…
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The Covasettes – Top Drawer
When we covered Manchester band The Covasettes March release “Wondering Why”, we were optimistic that the band could be one to drive a new age of guitar music in the city. It’s been just over three months since then and whilst it feels like we’ve been waiting an age for the…
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Far Caspian // Let’s Go Outside
Earlier this year H2N seriously lapped up the sound of local Leeds based quartet Far Caspian with their gentle but buzzing first single Holding On. So we were eagerly awaiting whether the follow up track would show similar promise. Happily Let’s Go Outside is a sophisticated bit of shoegaze, lo…
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Deep Sleep // Orange English Sun
Summer is finally here! It’s 30 degrees across the UK and I’ve been pining for my ultimate summer track for a couple of weeks now. With Marsicans releasing a new track, Corella with a single on the way and JUDAS’ music coming soon it was always going to take something…
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Vuromantics choose their favourite albums of all time
Music has the power to change lives, trigger countless emotions and above all, make people feel truly alive. Throughout history, there have been too many iconic records and singles that have impacted on people’s life day-to-day and our latest feature aims to highlight some of these records. Each week we’ll…
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LELO // I looked At The Sun
Lush is the only word anyone needs to describe LELO’S latest single I Looked At The Sun. The early summer released track is a fabulous piece of retro floating dream pop with rich production, guitar, soaring strings and some soft backing vocals from those Marsicians lads. Given the bright and sunny…
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roves // i fear the water
Reading based roves are a band I tipped earlier in the year after falling in love with their sweeping and strong first release always. This young band have now managed to pull off another impressive coup with their second released track i fear the water. What strikes me is how…
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Artist of the Week: LELO
This week, LELO was victorious in a hard fought artist of the week battle with three other artists. With a huge single review on it’s way from Chris, we took the time to catch up with LELO to talk the new track, and what’s to come from him in 2018…
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Dude York // Moon
A highlight of this year’s Manchester Dot to Dot festival was to catch Seattle’s Dude York in the cool, grungy and intimate atmosphere of the attic of Aatma in the Northern Quarter. Ultimately I was a little worse for wear (will I ever learn how to pace myself?) but I did…
The Setlist & The Script 